Word: spokesperson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each affinity group of a dozen or so friends sent one spokesperson to each meeting. Only the spokesperson could vote. A man and woman lead each meeting, and the positions rotated. Hierarchy was avoided; charismatic leadership squelched. It was invigorating to be a part of this form of decision-making. Each spokesperson had a right to be heard, and each man and woman were respected equally...
...Department of Education, including a slew of lawmakers and a variety of interest groups, have noisily bemoaned the fate of educational policies. Only a full-fledged Department, they insist, can ensure that education gets the national "visibility and attention" that it deserves. We must have a single spokesperson for the education community, they say--even if he/she is just a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong. If one is to believe its supporters, a department is the miracle cure for what ails the federal education bureaucracy, the wonder drug that will unclog the arteries and get the circulation flowing again...
...Guthrie, but was also high-lighted throughout the day as the main example of the institutional racism ox Harvard University. The news stories also neglected the role of the KSG Black Caucus in initiating the march to the Kennedy School and encouraging the renaming of the library. Pamoja Burrell, spokesperson for the KSG Black Caucus, delivered the keynote address, which was scarcely mentioned in the articles...
...dictionary, which serves as a guide to British, rather than American usage was compiled by a woman, Joyce M. Hawkins, 50. Aware that "chairperson" and its kin (e.g., "spokesperson") are increasingly accepted in the U.S., she notes, "In this country, chairperson is treated with mild amusement." The huge Oxford English Dictionary first included "chairman" a century ago, and, as Hawkins points out, its original usage made no sexual distinction. Still, Hawkins' dictionary tolerates "chairwoman," which it defines as a "female chairman...
...Minority Admissions at Harvard's Grad Schools" which appeared in the June 8 issue of The Crimson. Not only was the tone of the article such that it presented an already emotionally charged issue in an inflammatory manner, but I am particularly disturbed that my words and opinions as spokesperson for the Third World Caucus were misquoted and misrepresented in order to do so. I particularly take issue with the following paragraph which appeared in that article...